Today, before leaving my house, I OCD-checked all of my doors 16 times to make sure that they were locked. When I got home, my house had been broken into. Turns out I accidentally unlocked my front door when trying to lock it for the last time. This is why I have OCD. FML
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Today, in a rush to get out of my house to go to a doctor's appointment, I closed the door behind me without having my house or car keys on me. Sadly, it took me less than a minute to break into my own house. FML
Today, I freaked out when I couldn't get my bathroom door open. After ten minutes of panic when thinking about how I'd be stuck there for at least 8 hours until my roommate would get home, and another five mentally going over survival skills, I realized that I had forgotten to unlock the door. FML
Today, I was locked out of my house. After hours of trying to break the door, I found out I accidentally left a window open. The door, however, still needs to be replaced. FML
Today, I was convinced I hadn't locked up properly when leaving work, and almost had a panic attack at the train station. I went all the way back into work, to find I had in fact locked up properly. It made me nearly two hours late home. This isn't the first time I've done this. FML
Today, I was fed up with things being taken from my room so I installed a key-locking handle on my door. I installed everything but the door knobs, and because I was worried that I would put the two of them on backwards, I closed the door to check. I'm now locked in my room. FML
Today, I locked myself out of the house I was house-sitting. An hour later, and my fifth attempt at climbing the fence, I figured I'd try the door one more time. Turns out I was turning the handle the wrong way and the door wasn't locked in the first place. FML
Today, I accidentally locked my car and house keys along with my phone in my car. Then I had to break into my own house looking for the spare. Someone called the police and I had to explain that I lived there. I forgot to grab the spare when I went to talk to the police officers I locked the door behind me. FML
Today, I was looking for my condo keys, thinking I had left them in my mailbox on the first floor the night before. Leaving to check, I realized I'd forgot to take them out of my door when I had come in, leaving them in the keyhole. FML
Today, I broke my key unlocking my dorm room. When I pushed the door open in frustration, the door opened with no problem. Turns out it was unlocked. FML
Today, I came home to find that my house had been broken into. After assessing the loss, I saw a taunting note on the fridge saying, "Locks work best when the door's SHUT." My housekeeper had apparently left the door wide open. FML
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Top comments
CBlaze93 10
Doesn't hurt to check a 17th time.
VonGore 6
FYL, OP. I wish robbers I've experienced tried getting through the door. I've been robbed twice, and both times they broke a window to get in. I have OCD, but for me when it comes to locking doors, I literally have to say out loud "The door is locked." Not sure why. If I lock a door and don't say it and try to leave the house or go to bed, I can't. I'll get terrible anxiety.
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Comments (107)
AidenSurvival 7
Down voted again. I'm saying that I can relate to OP. I have OCD as well.
CharresBarkrey 16
Down votes really affect you that much?
KiddNYC1O 22
Maybe. He's OCD.
middlecyclone 5
He is obsessive/compulsive disorder?
KiddNYC1O 22
Stfu, smartass.
middlecyclone 5
I'm not a smartass. I just don't like people who define others by their disorder or disease. It's no better than saying "he is cancer". Don't be ignorant and I won't comment.
KiddNYC1O 22
The thing that bugs me is that you knew exactly what I meant yet you carry-on a defense method.
Demonfish 14
Sentry guns are the way forward!
TourettesGuyFTW 26
Unless they have cold-blooded.
KiddNYC1O 22
Not COD, OCD. =P
lokman_fml 7
If OCD didn't help you, maybe this is a good way to start getting over it. You weren't any more careful than anyone else, you just spent longer locking a door.
VonGore 6
You don't just "Get over" OCD. A lot of the time you can attempt to control it ( with SSRIs or something rather), but that's it. However it is possible to out-grow it in some cases, but for a lot of people it is chronic and long-term. And you don't choose what you obsess over.
Sigil 11
No, that isn't why you have OCD.
CharresBarkrey 16
Sure isn't. But this DID happen because of OP's OCD.
secretbagofstuff 4
Omg that's terrible how you're alright!
CharresBarkrey 16
It's terrible that OP's alright?
mayyberry 4
I must say, I'm quite enjoying reading everyone's stories and what they're OCD about!
Tempest559 12
Seventeen times couldn't have hurt.
CharresBarkrey 16
34, I'd like to introduce you to comment #1. It's right at the top, and I think you two will get along quite nicely.
perdix 31
You should have stopped at 15. People with OCD always get it right. You don't have OCD, you have Incompetence. I, on the other hand, have CDO -- it's the same as OCD, but in the proper alphabetical order like it needs to be.
cupkate18 6
I believe that you don't understand people with OCD don't like odd numbers I love the number 15 and 5 but I don't like other numbers so she did it one more time
AidenSurvival 7
Wish I could up vote perdix on the Android app. This guy deserves a medal.
xmidnightxlonerx 12
You know there is a "Reply" button right? You don't have to post a new comment each time, but don't worry I thumbed him up for you.
KiddNYC1O 22
But you could vote on android...
yogima 6
That sucks! That's why I only double check.
SApprentice 34
40- You only double check because you don't have OCD, or at least not OCD that causes you to fixate on doors. OCD can be crippling, and it's not something you can just easily wish away. It causes horrible anxiety that eats at you until you complete whatever the compulsion is.